Well, Finally! Peter's Two Worlds Are Colliding And It's All Working Out Fine

Today is my daughter's last day of being eleven. I keep shaking my head to clear it because it's just so hard to believe. She's going to be twelve tomorrow. We're having her birthday extravaganza today since they're still off from school - a trip to a local mall with her three besties plus one addition: Maddie is along for the ride.

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Peter has always been so careful to keep me from interacting in any way with Stacie, and I have a feeling he's never passed on the invitations I've extended for Maddie to come to Anna and David's previous birthday parties. This year, I spiked his guns a bit by asking him to invite Maddie right in front of Anna. He couldn't say no, and now they're all having a long-overdue blast together.

And I think it's crazy that I had to manipulate him like that over something this mundane. For creep's sake, it's certainly been long enough. If I was going to go bananas or something and freak out on the two of them, I would have done it long before now!

Oh well. It's progress. I'll take it. I'm just so glad to see Anna having such a great time with all her best friends. Especially since I'm locking her in a tower when she turns thirteen...

Did you ever have to do something to manipulate your ex on your kid's behalf?

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